Demographic Transition

Abstract

Without ignoring the complexity of the Brazilian educational system and the various elements that interact in it, this article aims at analyzing the role that population dynamics may have on the education of the population in coming decades, focusing on trends and the opportunities that arise fromit. To achieve this goal, we comment briefly some aspects of demographic transition and what some scholars call window of opportunity. Then we discuss the evolution ofthe Brazilian age structure from the dependency ratio and its perspectives, emphasizing the process of population aging. Later, one evaluates about the evolution of enrollment and the education system in Brazil, and then discuss some prospects for development in view of schooling.